1940年代，博弈理论的创始人冯诺曼（匈牙利数学家，其中一位电脑之父）和摩根斯坦（奥地利经济学家），在普林斯顿大学共同以扑克牌和西洋棋等桌上游戏说明了他们的想法。

• The founders of game theory, the Hungarian mathematician John von Neumann (one of the fathers of the computer) and the Austrian economist Oskar Morgenstern, collaborating in Princeton in the 1940s, used parlor games such as poker and chess for illustrating their ideas.